I upgraded to MM on my Z5C when it rolled out. I'm bootloader locked, my DRM keys are in place etc.
Now normally I listen with a bluetooth headset (and yes am plagued by the new stuttering on bluetooth connections with MM, but audio is otherwise clear), so I was surprised when I hooked up wired earphones and heard muddy, distored audio, as though I'd cranked bass up in an equalizer. Completely fuzzed audio. A quick test and I discovered that turning OFF clearaudio+ stopped the distortion.
I loved the clearaudio+ quality, but it's now just causing this nasty distortion. Has anyone else experienced this?
I had the same issue, go to settings, apps and clear data of audio settings
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Jbondop said:
I had the same issue, go to settings, apps and clear data of audio settings
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Pure genius, thanks for the tip. Worked perfectly and all audio settings are now back on track.
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I upgraded to MM on my Z5C when it rolled out. I'm bootloader locked, my DRM keys are in place etc.
Now normally I listen with a bluetooth headset (and yes am plagued by the new stuttering on bluetooth connections with MM, but audio is otherwise clear), so I was surprised when I hooked up wired earphones and heard muddy, distored audio, as though I'd cranked bass up in an equalizer. Completely fuzzed audio. A quick test and I discovered that turning OFF clearaudio+ stopped the distortion.
I loved the clearaudio+ quality, but it's now just causing this nasty distortion. Has anyone else experienced this?
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Yes! The buggers. I only use dsee now to eliminate this racket. Also I find that plugging my phone in to external amp via the headphone socket and immediately pressing play results in intermittent stuttering of the audio for at least ten seconds. MM has clearly broken the sound. I want to love this phone but sony are making it difficult/don't give an aftersales sh**e.
If htc had made a phone with this spec I wouldn't have hesitated. (by this spec, i mean ip rated, sub 5", half decent camera, sd card, for the trolls)
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I had the same issue, go to settings, apps and clear data of audio settings
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what app ???
I have the same problems more or less with Nougat and have no "audio settings" app or anything like it...
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I went from an iPhone 4 to the sgs 2. It seems to be giving me some audio distortion and static that wasn't there with my iPhone. Its most noticeable on the high end and with lower (128kbps) audio files. Any one else experiencing this or have suggestions on how to tweak things to make it better?
Only happens on Bluetooth a far as I can tell.
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I found I needed to get a balance of the volume controls. I use a stereo bt headset, Motorola s305. It sounded best at about 2/3 volume on the phone, and crank up the headset. Also check out the eq settings if you are using the stock music player. I don't listen to much music, but listen to tons of audiobooks. When I do listen to music its usually Pandora, on the high quality setting, and it sounds great.
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Hmm. I'll try the volume thing. Thanks.
Is there any way to 'lock' that volume max, so i don't accidentally switch that up?
I know there are apps on the market to increase volume levels, but I don't know of any to limit volume levels.
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This is due to a low bitpool setting. There is no way to change this unless you flash CM7 or any AOSP ROM, which comes stock with a higher bitpool, thus better sounding bluetooth audio.
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This is due to a low bitpool setting. There is no way to change this unless you flash CM7 or any AOSP ROM, which comes stock with a higher bitpool, thus better sounding bluetooth audio.
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just curious how this would affect BT earpieces but not car BT systems? I used my car's BT to make calls a lot and never had any audio issues.
I'm not opposed to flashing... Which would you suggest, CM7 or AOSP?
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I'm not opposed to flashing... Which would you suggest, CM7 or AOSP?
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everyone has their own opinion. Try one and see if you like it.
I paired up my Note with my new Belkin A2Dp Car kit and found that I am not able to control the bluetooth volume for the phone/voice profile.
Voice input sounds distorted as does any voice going out to the speakers. In calls the person I am calling sounds distorted and they say I do also. Obviously voice commands are useless as the phoe cannot identify what I am saying properly due to the distortion.
It's as if the mic-boost is blasted all the way up for the voice call bluetooth profile, is this the same issue of Samsung's crap BT stack that they never seem to fix?
I tried using an App called A2DP volume to force volume settings on connect but they have no effect on the BT in call volume, even the volume rocker on the phone does nothing during a call.
I dont see any volume or mic controls on my bluetooth device as it is a car-kit.
The music audio quality over A2DP is excellent and not distorted at all.
Joel
Anyone? Surely other people are using BT headsets and car kits with their note?
Crystal clear on my jaybird freedom bt headphones
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Crystal clear on my jaybird freedom bt headphones
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Yep the A2DP profile is clear and sounds great, as I said in my post, but the phone call profile is distorted and blown out, adjusting the volume on the phone seems to have no effect on this profile.
To clarify...no issues on mine. .phone calls included
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Yep the A2DP profile is clear and sounds great, as I said in my post, but the phone call profile is distorted and blown out, adjusting the volume on the phone seems to have no effect on this profile.
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I had a similar problem with a Kenwood player once. I had to update the player from the Kenwood site to fix it.
I think it's a bit outdated, but did you manage to fix it?
I have this belkin device and the same volume call issue (can't use it for calling). Tried with the phones in my signature and with an iphone 4s and get this issue with both. Only with an iphone 3g I could control volume successfully. Maybe it's only compatible with apple devices. iphone 4 doesn't work because ios5 disabled bluetooth call volume control.
It's too disappointing..
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Hi there. I upgraded my SGS i9000 to Jellybean JRO03L recently - latest build is excellent. However, Bluetooth call quality is distorted as per Griffindodd but ADP2, although relative quiet is very good.
Can't figure out what options I have.
Have the same issue in terms of controlling car music volume on the dashboard, but haven't noticed call quality, just got the a2dp application and will let everyone know how it works
Update: didn't work, still can't adjust volume via dash
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still nobody has any solution for this?
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figured out a work around for myself, so I found that when playing through Apollo I could control the volume on dash but not while playing Pandora and others, so what ended up working is loading both, pausing Pandora, playing Apollo to get volume control, then holding down the back button to kill Apollo(make sure this is enabled in developer options in phone settings), then Pandora should start playing again all by itself and still have volume control.
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I output the music to my car speakers with the jack. There is some noise coming out of the background. Sometimes it will go away but most of the time I can hear it. Does anyone have the same issue?
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never heard it, maybe it's your music file's issues. or turn the volume down try again
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never heard it, maybe it's your music file's issues. or turn the volume down try again
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I am sure it's not the music files because those are the same as the files on my evo 4G LTE. When I output the music with my evo, it's fine without noise. Even I turned the volume down, there is still some noise (like bad connection noise) coming out from my right speaker. Thanks for the tips, I guess I am the only one who's having trouble. Maybe I should just exchange it.
yeah, exchange it , that's the best way to solove this
Hello,
An update of the music player i am using (AIMP for android, free) just release an update (v 2.60) with the ability to choose between opensl and audiotrack for the sound engine. In audiotrack, i'm pretty sure it is driving the akm dac 4490 inside my axon 7 (mine 2017G B06) : when i switch between super and normal in audio settings there's a blank and i hear clearly the difference.
I ve search for other players that can drive the axon 7 dac and i found :
- stock player
- neutron
- google play music
is it right ?
Have a good day.
nevro
Hi, neutron player false positive I think.
Switching super HiFi and changing sound in player does not mean that it fully utilitize akm DAC. You will get better Sound on YouTube on any stream.
I will check aimp new features, thank you for the tip.
Try n7 player is my suggestion.
Use this if your bootloader is unlocked and the whole system can use the AKM DAC. Works on system or Magisk. https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/module-universal-deepbuffer-remover-t3577067/page11
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Use this if your bootloader is unlocked and the whole system can use the AKM DAC. Works on system or Magisk. https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/module-universal-deepbuffer-remover-t3577067/page11
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Excuse me, but can you explain why this enables the akm dac on any music player?
I don't quite understand.
Can you post a screenshot showing it works with your preferred player for example?
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Excuse me, but can you explain why this enables the akm dac on any music player?
I don't quite understand.
Can you post a screenshot showing it works with your preferred player for example?
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I've been using it on custom ROMs and my assumption is that it basically wires everything to the AKM DAC. That's because a) even in Youtube, Netflix and games the sound was clearly from the AKM DAC, and b) I'm on stock, was using Youtube without the patch and eventually felt so let down by the crappy shoebox sound that I downloaded it and flashed it.
Try it for yourself: download the flashable zip, put some music on YouTube (on stock it can't use the AKM DAC even by toggling the switch, that's why you should use youtube), then flash the zip and try again after it boots. There's no way around it, it's not placebo. It might sound worse for you if you have different cans or you want a different sound though
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Excuse me, but can you explain why this enables the akm dac on any music player?
I don't quite understand.
Can you post a screenshot showing it works with your preferred player for example?
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It allows the system sound effects like equaliser to affect all audio like how it was in KitKat. It's an option in ARISE and maybe default in Ainur (I forget, needs testing). This is just the function alone, it works well with the mod author's other audio FX installs.
I love Viper for tuning headphones for their individual Frequency Response with it's excellent graphic equaliser in V4A 2.3.4.0. Lowering output gain with it's advanced options seems to help lower Google Play Music so I can hear my game sounds higher, need to test this more to confirm. I find combining it's Speaker Optimisation with Dolby's surround with flat EQ produces the best speaker audio. Having tried most audio mods and effects on my old Z3C, keeping things simple with just these produces the best results. I'm yet to test a couple of mods that were incompatible with the Z3C and retest others on the Ax7. But as an audio purist and from experience, I don't believe any audio effects will improve audio rather than just modify the sound, unless they prove to retune the chip processing at a low level.
As Username suggested, have something like YouTube playing in the background and toggle the Hi-Fi to confirm a difference. It can be uninstalled by reflashing for system-based, or respectively via Magisk Manager, but TWRP backup in case. Audio isn't really something you can screenshot haha, it has to be on your device locally to be heard. This mod should be common knowledge by now for getting the most and expected out of an audio beast such as the Axon7 on stock.
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Thanks guys.
And what about PowerAmp on a stock rom?
Still seems troublesome on 704 alpha. Mine seemed ok but then started getting a fail error for hi res.
I just use Jet Audio as my default player with 32 bit enabled and AM3D plugin used. Sounds great.
By the way I discovered a conflict scenario when using the deep_buffer remover to allow the AKM DAC globally.
Whenever a non equaliser effect supported app (not GPlay Music or Neutron) plays any audio simultaneously over the top of another app's audio playing. The hi-fi toggle will no longer switch until audio is paused. This isn't typically a problem as Super mode is preferred and will continue to function when on headphones.
However it means if an audio track is playing on speakers and any non EQ supported app plays any audio causing the conflict, then plugging in headphones they'll be stuck on the Snapdragon DAC. The reason being that speakers use the Snapd DAC and plugging in without audio stopped continues the locked conflict where hi-fi won't switch to the set preference.
A simple workaround is to just pause/stop all audio and the hi-fi preference precedence will automatically function on resume. This can be done before or after plugging, it doesn't matter. To confirm this the hi-fi switch will then function immediately when changed.
This took me several reboots and testing various audio to pin the cause. The easiest way to tell the difference between the DACs is to turn up volume to a level that feels comfortably loud on Super, then whenever the SnapD DAC is in use instead the volume is noticeably not loud.
I haven't tested if a notification or ringer sound will cause the same conflict issue. Safer to just pause/stop all audio when starting headphone use in case of any previous audio having already caused the conflict.
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Anyone else noticing slight distortions when it comes to listening to music on the LG G6 (US997)? It's like listening to a lower quality song before it becomes high-quality 320kbps, except it goes like that for any song, even songs stored on the phone. This occurs over Bluetooth. I haven't tested plugged in.
Do you have any other bluetooth accessories connected at the same time? I found my smart watch impacts music streaming quality over bluetooth
I have this same issue. It seems like the phone had trouble handling multiple Bluetooth connections. Mine sounds like a static/crackle on every speaker that I use.
I am hoping there are some Bluetooth fixed coming with Oreo.
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Mine had a hissing sound on the car's bluetooth, solved it by seting the audio settings from stereo to mono, weird problem dough
I did sone playing around and it seems to be fixed after clearing dalvik/caxhe and caxhe through twrp. I don't experience the issue anymore. Might just be me, but give it a try and see if it works for you.